Textile fragment

Museum number:
5-11031
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2818
Description:
Textile sample (section of narrow band weaving). Brown beige ground with central black stripe (1.6 cm) flanked by two pale blue and one wider bright blue stripe (.5 cm). Khaki stripe down selvage.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria, Oyo, Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
February-April 1951
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
January 24, 1972
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 9 centimeters and length 103 centimeters
Loans:
S1976-1977 #73: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (April 21, 1977–April 25, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 5-11031, described as Textile sample (section of narrow band weaving). Brown beige ground with central black stripe (1.6 cm) flanked by two pale blue and one wider bright blue stripe (.5 cm). Khaki stripe down selvage.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 5-11031, described as Textile sample (section of narrow band weaving). Brown beige ground with central black stripe (1.6 cm) flanked by two pale blue and one wider bright blue stripe (.5 cm). Khaki stripe down selvage.

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